9th grade Texts

9-1 Literary Texts—Literary Elements and the Short Story

9-2 Literary Texts—The Novel--Honor

9-3 Literary Texts—Poetry--Beauty

• “Ozymandias” (Percy Bysshe Shelley) (E)
• “The Raven” (Edgar Allan Poe) (E)
• “Sonnet 73” (William Shakespeare) (E)
• “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (John Keats) (E)
• “We grow accustomed to the Dark” (Emily Dickinson) (E)
• “Mending Wall” (Robert Frost) (E)
• “Homecoming” (Julia Alvarez) (EA)
• “Love Is” (Nikki Giovanni) (EA)
• “A Lemon” (Pablo Neruda) (EA)
• “__Saturday’s Child__” (Countée Cullen) (EA)
• “Dream Variations” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
• “In Time of Silver Rain” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
• “I Ask My Mother to Sing” (Li-Young Lee)
• “The Gift” (Li-Young Lee)
• “Phantom Limbs” (Anne Michaels)
• Psalm 96 (King James Bible)
• “Lord Randall” (Anonymous)
• “Campo di Fiori” (Czeslaw Milosz)
• “__The Darkling Thrush__” (Thomas Hardy)
• __“Poetry__” (Marianne Moore)
• “__Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard__” (Thomas Gray)
• “The Sound of the Sea” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• “__I wandered lonely as a cloud__” (William Wordsworth)
• “__The Lady of Shalott__” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• “The Underground” (Seamus Heaney)
• __“In Trackless Woods__” (Richard Wilbur)
• “__The Reader__” (Richard Wilbur)
• “Walking Distance” (Debra Allbery)
• “Morning Glory” (Naomi Shihab Nye)
• Haiku selections

• Excerpts from Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957-1958 (William Faulkner, Frederick L. Gwynn, ed.)
• Excerpts from “Crediting Poetry,” the Nobel Prize Lecture, 1995 (Seamus Heaney)

• Giacomo Puccini, “Un bel di, vedremo” (Madama Butterfly, 1904)
• Giacomo Puccini, “O mio babbino caro” (Gianni Schicchi, 1918)

• Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (1503-06)
• Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (1486)
• Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night (1889)
• Michelangelo, David (1504)
• The Parthenon (447-432 BC)
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick C. Robie House (1909)
• Chartres Cathedral (begun around 1200)

9-4 Literary Texts—Drama--Fate

• Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) (E) (L1260)
• Antigone (Sophocles) (E)(L1090)
• Oedipus the King (Sophocles)(1010)

• Excerpt on comedy and tragedy from Poetics (Aristotle)

• Pablo Picasso, (1903)
• Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin (1604-1606)
• Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (1625)
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9-5 Literary Texts—Epic Poetry--Heroism

• Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

• The Odyssey (Homer) (E)
• The Aeneid/(Virgil)
• “The Lotos-Eaters” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• Excerpts from “Endymion” (John Keats) (EA)
• “The Song of Hiawatha” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (EA)
• Excerpts from the Ramayana (attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki)

• Excerpts from The Gold of Troy (Robert Payne)
• Excerpts from Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (Jonathan Shay)
• Excerpts from Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (William Manchester)
• Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (Elizabeth D. Samet)
• Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families(Andrew Carroll, ed.)
• //The Hero with a Thousand Faces// (Joseph Campbell)

• Henry Purcell, //Dido and Aeneas// (1689)

9-6 Literary Texts—Literary Nonfiction—Reflection (The Memoir, The Essay, and The Speech)

• One Writer's Beginnings (Eudora Welty)
• A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Harry E. Crews)
• Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)
• “A Four Hundred Year Old Woman” (Bharati Mukherjee)
• //In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens// (Alice Walker) (EA)(L1160)
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
• “Learning to Read and Write” (Frederick Douglass) (EA)
• Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin)
• “A Sketch of the Past” (Virginia Woolf)

• Excerpts from //Life on the Mississippi// (Mark Twain) (EA)

• “Second Inaugural Address” (E) and/or “The Gettysburg Address” (Abraham Lincoln) (E)
• “Address at the March on Washington” and/or “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) (E)
• Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech 1949 (William Faulkner) (EA)
• “Sinews of Peace Address” (Winston Churchill) and/or “Brandenburg Gate Address” (Ronald Reagan)

• “Politics and the English Language” (George Orwell) (E)
• “The Lost Childhood” (Graham Greene)
• Excerpts from The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today(Martin Seymour-Smith)
• “Lear, Tolstoy, and The Fool” (George Orwell)
• “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (Clement Greenberg)
• “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (William Wordsworth)

• Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait (1889)
• Jan van Eyck, Self-Portrait (1433)
• Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (1484)
• Leonardo da Vinci, (c.1513)
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait at an early age (1628)
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait at the Age of 63 (1669)
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1630s)
• Jacob Lawrence, Self-Portrait (1977)
• Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man (self-portrait) (1843)
• Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Self-Portrait with Dark Coat (No Date)
• Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait (1973)
• Balthus, //Le roi des chats// (The king of cats) (1935)
• Pablo Picasso, Self-Portrait (1907)